{"id":719765,"date":"2026-06-06T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719765\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:27:08","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-moving-steven-matz-from-rotation-to-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719765\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays moving Steven Matz from rotation to bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Tampa Bay Rays are moving left-hander Steven Matz from the rotation to the bullpen after two poor starts in which his ERA has climbed to 5.48 this season, it was announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 35-year-old Matz (4-3) allowed five runs and six hits, including two home runs, in 1 2\/3 innings in Tuesday&#8217;s 8-0 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Rays manager Kevin Cash said he pulled Matz after 53 pitches because the velocity on his fastball was down &#8212; 92 mph from his average of 93.3 mph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Said Matz afterward: &#8220;Got to try to work myself out of this rut and move forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Matz returned from the injured list on May 20 after dealing with elbow inflammation. In his last two starts, he&#8217;s given up 11 earned runs in 4\u2154 innings while striking out four and walking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cash has yet to name a rotation replacement for Matz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tampa Bay leads the American League East by 1\u00bd games entering Saturday&#8217;s play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays are moving left-hander Steven Matz from the rotation to the bullpen after two poor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82,146875,89837],"class_list":["post-719765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-steven-matz-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-500832","tag-tampa-bay-rays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-254"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}